Category: The Bible

  • They Say : ​“Your Bible Has Not Been Cor­rupt­ed”. Really ?

    What do the differences between Bible manuscripts reveal? This paper is divided into the following sections: 1. They require you to produce evidence on: WHEN, HOW and WHY was the Bible corrupted 2. Once upon a time, there was a myth about Bible manuscripts 3. Evidence: more than 50 verses either omitted or added, hundreds…

  • The Bible and Its Divorce Contradiction

    Accord­ing to the Bible, can a per­son get divorced and remar­ry with­out com­mit­ting adul­tery ? Remar­riage after divorce is pro­hib­it­ed because it is adul­tery. Jesus clear­ly says so. Mark 10:2 – 5, 9 – 12 : ​“And the Phar­isees came to him, and asked him, Is it law­ful for a man to put away his wife ? tempt­ing him. And he answered and said unto…

  • “Vir­gins of Par­adise” in Christianity

    It has already point­ed out pre­vi­ous­ly that the Ara­bic word ​“hur al-ayn” (houris), mean­ing a beau­ti­ful, volup­tuous woman, was already well known in the pre-Islam­ic Ara­bia and many instances of its usage have been pre­served in the pre-Islam­ic poetry. Some exam­ples may be seen as follows : The Diwan of ​‘Abid ibn Al-Abras of Ban­id, vol vii,…

  • Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

    Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

    It is well known that the Gospel of Mark con­tains numer­ous geo­graph­i­cal errors. This is summed up in Küm­mel’s clas­sic, Intro­duc­tion to the New Tes­ta­ment : [T]he con­sid­er­a­tions against this assump­tion [that John Mark, com­pan­ion of Peter, wrote the gospel of Mark] car­ry weight. The author obvi­ous­ly has no per­son­al knowl­edge of Pales­tin­ian geog­ra­phy, as the…

  • Wash­ing of Hands Prac­tised by ​“All The Jews”?

    Wash­ing of Hands Prac­tised by ​“All The Jews”?

    There is a problem with this passage, however: the ritual washing of hands was obligatory only on the priests! So the question remains, if the author was a native of Palestine and a Jew, then how was he so ignorant of the Jewish customs and made such a fundamental error regarding a practice that was…

  • Exter­nal Con­tra­di­tion of the Bible : A World­wide Cen­sus of Quirinius ?

    Exter­nal Con­tra­di­tion of the Bible : A World­wide Cen­sus of Quirinius ?

    There is an attempt by each writer of the Syn­op­tic Gospels to either re-cor­rect or present their own ver­sion of what they per­ceive to be the ​“accu­rate” sto­ry of Jesus’ birth, and this has caused dis­agree­ments between the gospel records. The dis­crep­an­cies between the dif­fer­ent gospel records were so numer­ous and glar­ing that it did…

  • Gamaliel And The Revolt of Theudas

    Gamaliel And The Revolt of Theudas

    In Acts 5:36, Gamaliel is record­ed to have said as fol­lows con­cern­ing the Jew­ish revolt of Theudas against the Roman Empire : Pro gar toutoon toon heemeroon anes­tee Theudas legoon einai tina heau­ton, hoo pros­ek­lithee androon arith­mos hoos tetrako­sioon, hos aneerethee, kai pantes hosoi epei­thon­to autoo dielutheesan kai egenon­to eis ouden. “For before these days rose up…

  • The Eclipse of Matthew 27 ?

    In the arti­cle His­tor­i­cal Errors in the Qur’an ? I briefly touched upon the events men­tioned in the Gospel of Matthew sur­round­ing the cru­ci­fix­ion of the Prophet Isa(P). With regards to the cru­ci­fix­ion of ​‘Isa(P), it is record­ed in the Gospel of Matthew : Matthew 27:4 ​“From the sixth hour until the ninth hour dark­ness came over all…

  • Ignored Teach­ings in the New Testament ?

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi While there are so many Old Tes­ta­ment laws which are ignored by Chris­tians, here are a num­ber of New Tes­ta­ment writ­ings which are also ignored. Do Chris­tians believe only what they want to believe, despite being com­mand­ed in their Scriptures ? (a) “…none of you can be my dis­ci­ple unless he gives up…